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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 2290896, member: 12789"]The British restruck a lot of their especially 1925 dated sovereigns during that time for payments in the Middle East. Of course QEII was then and now queen, but it was believed that her portrait on coins sent to Saudi Arabia etc would be an affront, so instead they used King George V's coin dies and struck up new coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then United States gold coins were quite unofficially made in that time in Lebanon and stand out for being spot on weight and composition wise, but only slightly off on design details. They were made as monetary counterfeits - not to fool collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 2290896, member: 12789"]The British restruck a lot of their especially 1925 dated sovereigns during that time for payments in the Middle East. Of course QEII was then and now queen, but it was believed that her portrait on coins sent to Saudi Arabia etc would be an affront, so instead they used King George V's coin dies and struck up new coins. And then United States gold coins were quite unofficially made in that time in Lebanon and stand out for being spot on weight and composition wise, but only slightly off on design details. They were made as monetary counterfeits - not to fool collectors.[/QUOTE]
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